Congress, the states and the numbers behind them

U.S. midterm elections 2026

The entire House and a third of the Senate are elected on November 3, 2026. See today's composition from official sources, what is at stake in each state and which data is still missing. No forecasts.

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What has changed?

Selected source publications and datasets in our coverage. A newly added source reference does not mean a new election event occurred. This is not a complete news feed or a live service.

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Control of Congress

Today's composition is not a 2026 result.

House of Representatives

435 seats up · 218 = majority

Current composition · Source published October 1, 2026 · Checked October 13, 2026
By caucusDRvacant
By caucus2142192

By party: R 218 · D 214 · I 1. One independent sits with the Republican caucus according to the Clerk.

Senate

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35 seats up (confirmed) · 51 = majority (the vice president breaks 50–50 ties)

Current composition (By party) · Checked October 15, 2026
By partyDRI
By party45532
  • 33 × regular Class II · term to 2033-01
  • 1 × special OH · term to 2029-01
  • 1 × special FL · term to 2029-01
  • Which caucus the independents join is not recorded from a source here. Party division is not the same as control.

Florida was confirmed on October 15 from an official notice. Seats up for election are separate from the party composition above. Senate candidates and results are not imported. Human review of the new explanations is pending. Official notice (PDF) ↗

Results tracking: House of Representatives

No results source is connected. No results from the 435 House races are imported here. This does not say whether election authorities have published results.

Source connection: 0 of 435 House races. Senate results are not included in this tracker. User scenarios and the current member roster are not used as election results.

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Human editorial review of the new status explanation is pending.

Explore states and districts

Districts and holders from the Clerk roster. Candidate coverage is shown per state.

Correction, October 15, 2026Maryland candidates could incorrectly appear under other states. They now appear only under Maryland. The reviewed candidate records are unchanged.

Districts are those in the current membership roster. Changed 2026 election boundaries are not mapped here; a current holder is not automatically a 2026 candidate in the same area.

2026 Senate races

35 listed races: 33 regular elections and special elections in Ohio and Florida. Candidate lists and results are not imported.

Maryland: No Senate race marked in this source version.

FEC calendar data as of May 18, 2026. Senate classes from GPO October 9, 2026. This is a dated source snapshot. Later changes and possible new special elections require election-authority checks. It is not an up-to-date ballot list or voting-deadline guide.

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Election type by state – not candidates or results
StateTypeClass
AlaskaRegularII
AlabamaRegularII
ArkansasRegularII
ColoradoRegularII
DelawareRegularII
FloridaSpecialIII
GeorgiaRegularII
IowaRegularII
IdahoRegularII
IllinoisRegularII
KansasRegularII
KentuckyRegularII
LouisianaRegularII
MassachusettsRegularII
MaineRegularII
MichiganRegularII
MinnesotaRegularII
MississippiRegularII
MontanaRegularII
North CarolinaRegularII
NebraskaRegularII
New HampshireRegularII
New JerseyRegularII
New MexicoRegularII
OhioSpecialIII
OklahomaRegularII
OregonRegularII
Rhode IslandRegularII
South CarolinaRegularII
South DakotaRegularII
TennesseeRegularII
TexasRegularII
VirginiaRegularII
West VirginiaRegularII
WyomingRegularII
Sources and scope

FEC marks states with Senate elections. The GPO membership list only cross-checks seat classes; it is not a candidate list or evidence that an incumbent is running. No names or party composition are imported from it.

Human editorial review of the new explanations is pending.

Maryland: published voting hours

Early in-person voting: October 22–29, daily from 07:00 to 20:00 in Maryland. Election Day, November 3, has the same local hours. See each day in Norwegian time below; the time difference changes because the countries change their clocks on different dates.

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Source snapshot retrieved October 23, 2026. Check the organizer’s information for any changes.

Calculated from your device’s clock and the source schedule. This is not an observation of an open polling place, an eligibility decision or a results alert. Published closing time does not establish published results. Early voting is not open overnight.

See all nine days in Maryland and Norwegian time

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Nine separate windows — Maryland only
TypeMaryland · America/New_YorkNorway · Europe/Oslo
Early votingOctober 22, 2026 – –
Early votingOctober 23, 2026 – –
Early votingOctober 24, 2026 – –
Early votingOctober 25, 2026 – –
Early votingOctober 26, 2026 – –
Early votingOctober 27, 2026 – –
Early votingOctober 28, 2026 – –
Early votingOctober 29, 2026 – –
Election DayNovember 3, 2026 – –

Check Maryland’s official election information ↗

Sources and original retrieval times

Reviewed by Lars Føleide · . Covers this version of the Maryland schedule and explanations in both languages. Other content and later source versions are outside this approval.

Maryland

House of Representatives – 2026 candidatesAvailable

22 active candidate filings across 8 districts are staged from the state list. Names are shown after named review (Lars Føleide, October 13, 2026) of this exact source version.

GovernorAvailable

4 active governor tickets with running mates are staged. Names are shown after review of the same source version.

SenateNot covered

No Senate race is marked for this state in the imported FEC calendar (2026-05-18). This does not rule out later changes or special elections.

Districts (current holder) · Clerk 2026-10-01
DistrictHeld byBy caucus2026 candidates
MD-1Explore this race and its candidatesAndy Harris (R)R
  • Dan Schwartz (Democratic)
  • Andy Harris (Republican)
  • Edward Shlikas (Unaffiliated, registered write-in, not printed on the ballot)
MD-2Explore this race and its candidatesJohnny Olszewski (D)D
  • John "Johnny O" Olszewski, Jr. (Democratic)
  • Dave Wallace (Republican)
MD-3Explore this race and its candidatesSarah Elfreth (D)D
  • Sarah Elfreth (Democratic)
  • Berney Flowers (Republican)
  • Robert L. Coffman (Republican, registered write-in, not printed on the ballot)
MD-4Explore this race and its candidatesGlenn Ivey (D)D
  • Glenn F. Ivey (Democratic)
  • George E. McDermott (Republican)
  • Sam Husseini (Green)
MD-5Explore this race and its candidatesSteny Hoyer (D)D
  • Adrian Boafo (Democratic)
  • Chris Chaffee (Republican)
  • Mildred Marie Hall (Other Candidates, registered write-in, not printed on the ballot)
MD-6Explore this race and its candidatesApril McClain Delaney (D)D
  • April McClain Delaney (Democratic)
  • Robin Ficker (Republican)
  • Moshe Y. Landman (Green)
MD-7Explore this race and its candidatesKweisi Mfume (D)D
  • Kweisi Mfume (Democratic)
  • Scott M. Collier (Republican)
MD-8Explore this race and its candidatesJamie Raskin (D)D
  • Jamie Raskin (Democratic)
  • Cheryl Riley (Republican)
  • Nancy Wallace (Green)

Explore this race and its candidates Governor: 4 filings (Democratic, Green, Republican, Working Class Party). 5 inactive filings (withdrawn/failed) are excluded. These are state filings, not the state senate and not a nationwide roster.

Maryland 2026 candidate directory

Source: Maryland State Board of Elections, retrieved October 13, 2026 (version sha256 c2af2098a27e…). Reviewed by Lars Føleide on October 13, 2026, limited to: 26 active Maryland filings (22 U.S. House across 8 districts, 4 governor tickets). This approval does not cover the explanations on the page.

3 of 26 candidates

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U.S. House, Maryland district 3
NameCompareParty labelStatusFiled
Sarah ElfrethDemocraticListed candidateSeptember 17, 2025
Berney FlowersRepublicanListed candidateSeptember 16, 2025
Robert L. CoffmanRepublicanRegistered write-in (not printed on the ballot)September 28, 2026
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National congressional polls

Selected published surveys, not a complete or live feed. Age is measured from the end of fieldwork.

Age and analysis calculated as of 2026-10-15 (America/New_York). This is not a new source check.

Pew Research Center · October 8, 2026

District-candidate preference, nationally

Registered voters mostly saw their district candidates’ names. Figures include respondents leaning toward a candidate. Generic choices were used in some areas and cases.

Registered voters · not an election result
ResponseShare
D – Democratic candidate44 %
R – Republican candidate36 %
Another candidate, including leaners5 %
Not sure15 %
No answer (source symbol)*

Rounded percentages. “*” is preserved from the source and is not set to zero. This is a national summary, not a poll of each district, a forecast or a seat estimate.

Fieldwork
September 28, 2026 – October 4, 2026
Registered voters
n=3,917 (full survey n=5,062)
Registered-voter sampling error
±1.8 percentage points, 95% confidence level
Fieldwork age
11 days since fieldwork ended
Retrieved

Shown separately: Question wording, named candidates and response categories differ from the generic polls below. These figures are not pooled with them.

Sources and method

The sampling error applies to shares among registered voters, not the D–R difference. Turnout and other survey errors are not covered by this one margin.

“With Americans in a Sour Mood, Democratic Voters Are More Engaged in Midterms.” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2026). Pew Research Center

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National polls (generic ballot)

The question asks which party people would vote for in Congress nationally. It is not a district race and does not say who wins a majority.

Sources: Marist, Emerson · Not a licensed or live poll feed
PollsterFieldworkPopulationSampleDRUncertaintyAge / retrieved
Marist2026-09-14 – 2026-09-15Registered voters1,28053 %41 %±3.8 (margin of error)30 days
Emerson College2026-09-21 – 2026-09-22Likely voters1,00053 %42 %±3 (credibility interval)23 days

Descriptive average

Only polls with the same population, response set and contest are combined. With one pollster per population the "average" is just that poll.

  • Registered votersD 53.0 % · R 41.0 % · 1 pollster45-day window · latest wave per pollsterdescriptive-average-1 · not calibrated, not a forecast
  • Likely votersD 53.0 % · R 42.0 % · 1 pollster45-day window · latest wave per pollsterdescriptive-average-1 · not calibrated, not a forecast

Publication dates: Marist September 23 (page), Emerson September 24 (page publication metadata). Retrieved/checked October 13. Undecided shares are not imported; D/R shares are not normalized to 100 percent. This is a limited dated selection, not all polls. Automated recheck returned HTTP 403. Figures were checked with an AI-assisted source reader on October 13. This source version is covered by the page approval of October 13, 2026. Method: conducted September 21–22, 2026, n=1,000 likely voters, credibility interval ±3 (not a sampling margin of error).

What if the polls are wrong?

Compare selected 2020 and 2024 presidential polls with official vote counts. Historical errors do not calibrate the 2026 midterms.

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Scenario lab

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The House across 31 election cycles

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Explainer and history

What is a midterm?

Midterms fall halfway through the president's four-year term. The president is not on the ballot; Congress is.

Who sets the rules?

States administer the election: registration, hours, early voting, ballots, counting and certification, so the rules differ by state.

Calls are not results

Media organizations "call" races from their own analysis. Official reported counts can be preliminary. Certified results follow state certification. Media calls stay separate from both.

Historical results

The FEC publishes a historical compilation of official federal results after states certify them. It is not a live feed. Historical party allocations from official House tables are available in a separate source view. Selected presidential polls and results are in the separate historical polling lab.

Dates

  1. Federal general election dayU.S. midterms

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